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Announces The Gathering Tour
March 29th, 2026 by Kevin Gomez
For quite a while now Weezer has really stepped up their concert going experience, even coming up with specific themes and names. In 2023 they took fans aboard the Indie Rock Road Trip along with Spoon and White Reaper. The set design was meant to look like a car’s dashboard, complete with radio and a front windshield with video made to make you feel like you were traveling across the country.
Their 2024-2025 tour saw the band blast into space, taking fans on the Voyage to the Blue Planet, celebrating 30 years of their iconic self-titled “Blue Album.”
On March 20th, the band posted a short video with a snippet of what appeared to be a new song as a young boy taped a piece of paper onto a pole. The paper featured three cryptic, hard-drawn symbols along with the Weezer logo in the middle. Before the video’s end, the date 3/26/26 appeared. I haven’t seen top cryptologists work this hard 24/7 to decipher a code since The Zodiac, but the general message was understood: new Weezer album info was dropping next Thursday.
True to their word, lead singer Rivers Cuomo and guitarist Brian Bell stopped by the Klein.Ally.Show on KROQ to drop the news of their upcoming album, to release their new single, “Shine Again” and announce a national tour called The Gathering. The boys will be bringing along some indie alt-rock heavyweights.
The Shins will be supporting Weezer on all dates. The band was launched into superstardom after their song “New Slang” became the theme song of Zach Braff’s “Garden State.” The famous scene where Natalie Portman puts her headphones on Braff’s head as the song begins to play is forever etched into a whole generation.
Also playing The Gathering will be Silversun Pickups. In February the Silver Lake band released their latest effort, the Butch Vig-produced “Tenterhooks.” They became radio darlings with their debut album in 2006 as KROQ and Indie 103 played “Lazy Eye” and “Little Lover So Polite” in heavy rotation.
Weezer has really been giving back to fans this week to garner hype for the upcoming tour. Thursday night, select lucky fans who had registered were picked to participate in a trivia night at Barney’s Beanery in Santa Monica. Guests were extremely surprised as Cuomo and Bell dropped by to host and play the new single. Friday night, additional guests were invited to come down to Hinano Cafe in Venice, where fans were treated to an acoustic rooftop performance reminiscent of The Beatles or U2.
Weezer played four of their biggest hits and their latest single, which has become a hit 10 years in the making. “Go Away” features guest vocals from Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino and was released on 2014’s “Everything Will Be Alright in the End,” but only recently went viral on TikTok. The band were reunited with Cosentino Friday evening for a performance of the song.
Weezer will bring The Gathering to Viejas Arena in San Diego on October 21st, and their final stop will be at home at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on October 24th. Tickets for the tour are on sale now.
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